A Decade on the Same Stretch of Huntington Beach Coastline, and Treehouse on Pch Is Still Pouring, the Community Is Still Showing up and Paséa Isn’t Looking Back
Some hotels open to fanfare and fade quietly into the landscape. Paséa Hotel & Spa did something rarer: it became the landscape. Ten summers into its life on the edge of Pacific Coast Highway, the property hasn’t just kept pace with Huntington Beach, it’s helped define what the city’s best season actually feels like.
Ask someone who’s been coming here since the beginning, and they won’t describe a hotel. They’ll describe a feeling: the salt air hitting you as you step onto the terrace, the low hum of the Treehouse on PCH at the end of a long beach day, the particular quality of a Huntington Beach sunset when you’re watching it from exactly the right place. Paséa has spent a decade perfecting that feel, being that place.
This summer’s 10th anniversary celebration isn’t a backward glance, but a reminder that the best properties don’t need to reinvent themselves every few years to stay relevant. They need to understand what they are, commit to it fully and refine it with each passing season. By that measure, Paséa is celebrating a decade of getting it right.
The View That Started It All
There’s a version of the Treehouse on PCH story that starts with the cocktail menu, but the honest version starts with the view. Paséa’s rooftop bar sits above Pacific Coast Highway with a sightline that opens up in a way that still surprises people who think they know what a beach bar looks like. The horizon stretches wide, and the water catches the light differently at every hour. On a clear evening, which in Huntington Beach is most evenings, the sky does things that make it easy to understand why people keep coming back.
The Treehouse has poured cocktails through a decade of those sunsets, through summer rushes and quiet off-season evenings, through the kind of regulars-only Tuesday nights that locals treasure most.
It has been the first stop for visitors arriving with high expectations and the last stop for residents who just needed a reason to get out of the house. It has been, by almost any measure, the social and symbolic heart of what Paséa is.
For the anniversary, the bar is leaning into its own history with throwback cocktails straight from the menu that first put it on the map, refreshed with the craft sensibility the program has developed over the years. Little else has changed. It’s the same view, but with a decade of perspective, the drinks are better than ever. This is the kind of anniversary gesture that doesn’t feel like a stunt because it isn’t. The bar knows what it’s good at: offering the people who knew it first a reason to come back, and the people discovering Huntington Beach for the first time a reason to understand what all the fuss has been about. Order something, find a seat facing west and let the sunset do the rest.
A Month Worth Celebrating
June at Paséa this year is less of a single moment than a sustained argument for why the hotel deserved the past decade. The Hang 10 Anniversary Package gives guests a reason to finally stop driving past and stay, built around the kind of coastal indulgence that doesn’t need much explaining when you’re watching the sun drop over the water. For anyone who has ever told themselves they’d spend a proper night here and hasn’t quite gotten around to it yet, this is the obvious moment. Guests who book the anniversary package will receive a welcome amenity, a $200 dining credit valid at Lōrea Restaurant, Treehouse on PCH, Blend Café or in-room dining, two 50-minute signature spa treatments at Aarna Spa, a beach bonfire sunset dessert package, a discounted $10 daily resort fee (regularly $42) and discounted $10 daily valet parking (regularly $60).
Paséa’s Balinese-inspired Aarna Spa has long been one of the quieter points of pride on the property, refraining from announcing itself loudly yet delivering consistently, which in the long run is a more durable reputation to have. June’s specials present a chance for people who’ve heard about it to finally book it, and for regulars to enjoy something that acknowledges their loyalty in a tangible way.
On the food and beverage side, the month-long programming threads the same needle the property always has: elevated without being remote, celebratory without being overwrought. A long lunch at Lōrea that turns into an early dinner. A cocktail that earns its place on the menu. The kind of hospitality that makes you feel like you arrived at just the right time.
When the City Shows Up
If the anniversary package is an invitation to slow down, June 24 is when things accelerate. The community celebration Paséa has planned kicks off at 5:30 p.m. and is where the hotel’s milestone stops being about the hotel and becomes Huntington Beach. A lot of properties mark anniversaries, but fewer earn the kind of loyalty that turns a party into a neighborhood gathering. Admission is free with an RSVP.
What Paséa has built over the last 10 years is something harder to manufacture than a great view: a real place in the fabric of a beach city that has seen its share of openings, closings and reinventions. The locals who made Treehouse on PCH a regular stop, the families who’ve built summer traditions around the property and the people who simply like that it’s there. They’re the reason June 24 lands the way it does. The hotel is throwing a party, and the city actually wants to come.
Ten summers is nothing to a coastline. But to a hotel, it’s everything. Paséa Hotel & Spa reaches this anniversary with the same view it opened with and a better understanding of why that view was worth protecting. Whatever summer looks like, it’s starting right here.
Ever since she was a child, Ashley Ryan knew she wanted to write. After working on her high school newspaper and college magazine, she graduated with a degree in journalism and anthropology, eager to tell the stories of people and places in Orange County and around the world. Her prolific career as a writer, editor and photographer has led her to write about travel, culture, art, home design and so much more. When not working on her latest piece, she enjoys visiting new places, going to concerts, hiking, doing yoga on the beach, reading, cheering on her favorite sports teams and spending time with beloved friends and family.
